fix you

Wow! I have been pushing for us to do "Fix You" by Coldplay at TNC one of these days. Check out this YouTube video...my heart is about to beat out of my chest after watching this...it is GOOD! No instruments either!

Make sure you watch the whole thing.

I am going to watch it again now.

out with the gold, in with the new!

I am dangerous with a can of black spray paint.

Over the last six months I have slowly been updating a few things in my house. Not big projects though, because that would be complicating my life instead of simplifying. I am talking about small projects that make a big impact. For example, in my den, I have lots of 5 x 7 pictures of my family....the pictures are inside GOLD frames. That is SO 90's! And I'm just not in the mood to spend the money to replace them with black ones, just because of the color. So I pull out the $4 can of flat black spray paint, spread out my newspapers in the yard, line up my shiny frames on the paper, and spray away! Sometimes I am heavy-handed with the paint and other times I use a light touch, which creates a whole different look. It's an art form that takes time to master, but the end result is quite impressive.

Another project that I tackled was some natural-colored wicker furniture that now looks showroom fresh due to my black spray painting. This type of project is for the advanced artist since primer should be applied. My next victims will be a gold-finish plate rack on my wall and some green wrought iron end tables.

So I told Alan how much money I saved him with my low-cost spray painting technique. He just thinks I have gone crazy and wants to know if I am going to spray paint him next!

see you at the poll?

I am taking a poll based off the Simplify series at TrueNorth Church.

I'm thinking that my blog readers don't see it on my site.

It's right over there.

To the right.

The gray box.

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Please just humor me and vote!

my baby gurl is 18

Happy 18th Birthday, Kacie! You were wonderfully made!



I hope you like your present...




...one for you...

...and one for ME!

what we do for a wii

Check out this story from the Associated Press:

"A Sacramento area morning radio show has been pulled off the air indefinitely after a mother of three died last week following a water-drinking contest at the show's studios.

Executives of KDND-FM, posted a note on the station's Web site on Monday saying the "Morning Rave" show would remain off the air while the station investigates the circumstances surrounding the death of 28-year-old Jennifer Lea Strange.

Strange was one of about 18 participants on the "Morning Rave" who tried to win a Nintendo Wii gaming console early Friday by seeing how much water they could drink without going to the bathroom. The show's DJs called the contest "Hold your Wee for a Wii."

Strange was found dead several hours later. The Sacramento County coroner said preliminary autopsy findings indicated she died of water intoxication.

During the contest, participants were given two minutes to drink an 8-ounce bottle of water and then given another bottle to drink after a 10-minute break.

Fellow contestant James Ybarra said he quit drinking after imbibing eight bottles, but Strange, who placed second, and others kept going even after they were handed even larger containers.Strange showed other participants photographs of her two sons and daughter, for whom she was hoping to win the Nintendo Wii, Ybarra said."

diggin' it

We went to Hilton Head this weekend for a little 'R and R'. Did you know that it's not really January in Hilton Head? No, I think it might be April or May with blue skies, 75 degrees, and my baby boy digging in the sand with his shovel. Notice Matthew's Power Ranger tattoo on his right arm. He has had it on since Christmas Day!

all things southern

NewSpring Church in Anderson typically hires from within unless there is a dynamic leader from elsewhere whose passion and vision lines up with theirs...and this is a rare thing. Well, Perry has hit the jackpot and Tony Morgan is coming on staff at NewSpring all the way from Granger, Indiana. I don't know Tony, but I read his blog, and this is what I want him to know about being a Southerner:

If you're Southern, you'll know...

1. The difference between a hissie fit and a conniption.

2. What general direction cattywumpus is.

3. That "gimme sugar" don't mean pass the sugar.

4. The differences between a redneck, a good ol' boy, and trailer trash.

5. Never to assume that the other car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.

6. It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.

7. Fixinto is one word.

8. Ice tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two.

9. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola or pop...it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example: "What kinda coke you want?"

10.Thou shalt not put sugar or syrup on thy Grits.